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...market, have moved strongly into Latin America. Now they are busy tackling an even more challenging area: Africa. From Cape Town to Cairo, indefatigable Japanese are scrambling over the continent, taking orders, building plants and signing trade pacts. They are making TV sets in Ghana, spinning textiles in Nigeria, galvanizing iron in Ethiopia, building a nylon mill in Kenya and assembling Nissan and Toyota cars in South Africa. Hoping to improve the climate for Japanese exports, the Japanese government plans to extend more than $9,000,000 in industrial development loans to the east African nations of Kenya, Uganda...
...headed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
...church's priesthood. For this reason, Mormon missionaries have never tried very hard to make converts in black Africa. Yet Mormons also believe that Negroes may be admitted to the priesthood in heaven. This apparently is good enough for 7,000 Ibibio, Ibo and Efik tribesmen in eastern Nigeria, who have gone ahead to organize their own branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...Nigeria's saints owe their knowledge of Mormonism to an itinerant team of Church of Christ missionaries who visited the town of Uyo in 1953 and left behind, among other books and tracts, a copy of Joseph Smith's Own Story. Fascinated by the dramatic life of the Mormon prophet, Anie Dick Obot of Uyo decided to form a branch of the church in Nigeria, and wrote for more information to Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders sent back books explaining their laws and doctrines, and in 1959 dispatched to Africa Elder Lamar Williams...
...strict adherence to revelation. Some Nigerian Mormons practice polygamy-forbidden in the U.S. church since 1890-and the converts already seem to have established their own black hierarchy, priests and all. "I don't have to wait for revelation to know that I am the natural head in Nigeria," snaps Obot, who is accepted by his elders as their bishop. "Nigerian priests will run their own branch. This is their creation, and they are in their own country...